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Last updated on 2021-04-12.

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Imer Muhovic

I have built genome assembly pipelines that run on AWS, created web applications for use in microbial ecology, and worked as a bioinformatics engineer for the past three years. Currently testing software on my dayjob, and teaching journalists as a freelance consultant.

Employment History

::: Experience in industry and research, as QA and bioinformatics engineer in a variety of tasks, from creating pipelines to creating web applications. :::

Program Architect

Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Authority Partners

2021 - 2020

  • Managing software testing teams involved in API, UI and mobile testing of large scale service oriented applications.

Bioinformatics Engineer / Early Stage Researcher

Barcelona, Spain

ICM-CSIC

2020 - 2018

  • Creating easy to understand applications for microbial ecology. Worked on analysing temporal and geographic abundance of microbial species in the global ocean. Continuation of SINGEK-ITN project

Bioinformatics Engineer

Barcelona, Spain

aScidea

2018 - 2017

  • SINGEK-ITN initial host institution. SaaS development for Single Cell Genomics. Created data analysis pipelines for genome assembly running on AWS, and several smaller applications for dealing with client oriented services in Laravel/VueJS

Lead QA Analyst

Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Authority Partners

2016 - 2014

  • Managed team of 3-5 engineers working on testing large service oriented software platform. Automated testing in C# via Selenium and later Xamarin UITest.

Education

MSc, Genetics and Bioengineering

Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

International Burch University

2015 - 2013

  • Worked on predicting G-Quadruplex folding of DNA strands, created website in Python that exposes predictive neural network to end user

BSc, Genetics and Bioengineering

Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

International Burch University

2013 - 2010

  • Thesis: Creating a heavy metal accumulating gene database




Freelance work

When not at my dayjob I use my skills to educate journalists on how to work with data, while avoiding coding, analyse my countries political system and give talks about this topic, as well as the faults of various visualizations. :::

Data Analyst

Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Internews

2021 - 2019

  • Created series of educational videos aimed at teaching journalists in the Western Balkans how to analyse data.
  • All in BCS with Macedonian and Albanian subtitles. Held webinar on scraping APIs from electoral commisions, talked at several conferences/workshops on analysing and visualizing electoral data.
  • Provided educational workshops for Internews partners, such as KOHA, Oslobodjenje, MINA NEWS, and provided support for data analytics during every 2020 and 2021 election held in the Western Balkans, including data collection, analysis and visualization.

Data Analyst

Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Raskrinkavanje.ba

2018

Selected Data Science Writing

::: I occasionally write about data science on my personal blog :::

Electoral analysis of Bosnian political system

Personal Blog

N/A

2018

  • First ever analysis looking at the “swing” potential of individual municipalities in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
  • Resulted in several conference invites to speak about my work, POINT 8.0, Little school of data and mentoring at the BMAP lab in Skopje.

Selected Press (About)

Profile on me in the largest news site in my country

Klix.ba

N/A

2018

  • Short profile about me and my work at the time, focusing on analysing past elections and visualizing current ones.